A Greenville County child is the latest confirmed measles case in South Carolina, pushing the state's total to 11 and marking the third case announced this week, the Department of Public Health said Oct. 9.

It is not yet clear if the case is connected to an outbreak at two elementary schools in Spartanburg County, where seven people have been infected, and provides more evidence the highly contagious virus is circulating in the community, said Dr. Linda Bell, the state epidemiologist.

“We just started our investigation of this case and at this time, we don’t have any information if there is any common source of exposure with the Greenville case to the known cases,” Bell said.

All the cases identified so far are in unvaccinated people. Bell declined to say whether all of the cases are in

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